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 Who am I?  What is PDS?  A tour of PDS: ◦ Portfolio Decision and Survelliance System  Why WPF?  End Remarks

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 My profession is Finance ◦ Ph.D in Financial Engineering  Has and am working mainly with Risk (Credit, Market, Counterparty) and Valuation from a Quantitative perspective  Selfemployed since 2001, mainly developing the financial toolkit: FinE Function Library (www.fineanalytics.com)www.fineanalytics.com ◦ Before that...Quant (and Risk) for +14 years in different Banks  More recently PDS......more later

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 I have been working with Dyalog APL since version 6...that means around early 90s  Which is the only language i really know....on a good day I can read C#.....  I have known WPF since last august  I do not write XAML – but I do ”steal”

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 Is short for Portfolio Decison and Surveillance System  The short version:  PDS is foremost an advanced Asset Allocation Tools for the Professional Investor  Secondly it is a Market-and Credit Risk plus CVA engine....

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 PDS is : ◦ Written purly in Dyalog APL 14 ◦ With an interface purly in WPF – with a focus on the Syncfusion Controls ◦ Make use of the WPF ws from Michael Hughes  For mainly: Events, Commands, Binding and Resources....

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 Design: ◦ In WPF it becomes a question of what you want, not what is possible  Lego: ◦ Everything fits together  Content, Children og Items...mostly  Databinding: ◦ Allows for the separation of Interface, Data and the Calculation Engine (PDS is ”like” that)